Topic Area: Online Teaching & Learning
Presented by: Ann Burke, Jeff Austin, Gretchen Rumohr, Ellen Foley
Abstract:
This interactive workshop welcomes educators spanning K-12 and college contexts desiring to learn more about Face to Face(F2F) assessment. F2F aligns with the sanctuary space described by Oakley (2018): a space where we can experience safety and comfort on our own terms. Holding this space requires pushing back against institutional demands for efficiency, quantity, and data gathering to attend to granular, individualized needs of each student, creating opportunities for equitable learning environments.
Workshop facilitators share how to implement F2F while navigating potential challenges such as limited time and high enrollments in online and in-person spaces. We share what we learned from teaching during a pandemic and how logistical challenges traditionally encountered with F2F–such as scheduling and classroom management–can be negated with online platforms. This workshop validates and affirms, as Fassler (1978) and Corbett (2010) do, that grading can be a “synergistic, multi-vocal, live conversation.”
Beyond the “how to,” workshop facilitators detail how F2F humanizes pedagogy and encourages ownership and agency. Facilitators explain how F2F disrupts inequities and inequalities of traditional grading, demystifies the grading process, develops the classroom community, engages student writers, minimizes instructor fatigue and frustration, and brings about meaningful inquiry about writers’ own skills and practices. Those interested in writing assessment in both K-12 and higher education spaces are encouraged to attend.